Field Marshal Wolfram von Richthofen marches behind General Franco during the Spanish civil War

One of the two personalised albums was compiled just before the war and is of a huge victory parade in Berlin for Germany’s Condor Legion, a military unit which supported General Franco in the Spanish Civil War between 1936 and March 1939.

Richthofen served in the Red Baron’s squadron in the WW1, went on to design the ‘Jericho trumpet’ of the infamous Stuka Bomber between the wars, before leading the Condor Legion in the Spanish Civil War

The two albums, which have hand-written captions by von Richthofen, were taken from Berlin by a British soldier at the end of the war.
He kept them for 60 years before they were acquired by a private collector.
Auctioneers Dickins of Buckinghamshire are now selling the historic albums for an estimated £20,000.
Von Richthofen served in the First World War in the German Air Force and was in the same squadron as his cousin, Manfred von Richthofen, who was credited with 80 aerial victories.